Ignore if you've seen this ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1GI-VcmW10

It seems speech-to-text hasn't come far in the last 22 years. Expert opinions?

10/26/2006 10:43:12 PM

my favorite was the bubbles voice

10/26/2006 11:02:07 PM

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Intro_Demo.txt

[Edited on October 27, 2006 at 12:30 AM. Reason : ]

10/27/2006 12:28:06 AM

Steve Jobs, Stephen Hawking, whats the difference?

10/27/2006 12:47:32 AM

One big difference is that that Mac had a hardware speech synthesizer, where all currents Macs (and systems) use software synthesizers.

Also, the new version of OS X is suppose to have some higher quality voices (just like the new version of Vista...).

10/27/2006 1:02:55 AM